SBS Independent Commissioned Content - Sheet1.csv

The data aggregated in this database was originally compiled as part of a broader research project which examined SBS Independent (SBSi) as a small cultural institution that made a significant impact within Australia's film and television production sector. In terms of production, SBSi supported the independent production industry by commissioning locally produced films, documentaries and television series, providing producers with a much needed distribution platform, and growing audiences for Australian content. SBSi staff also worked closely with other federal and state film institutions to nurture a new generation of culturally diverse film and television makers, such as through their involvement with the Indigenous Drama Initiative, administered by the Australian Film Commission. Involvement in such schemes were ground-breaking insofar as they legitimated the representation of diverse faces, voices and narratives on national television through their commitment to prime time broadcast of commissioned content. It is through SBSi that SBS significantly expanded accepted the category of multiculturalism to include disability, sexuality, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, etc. When I began my research in 2009, data about SBSi's output was dispersed and quite limited. This database aggregates data from a variety of resources, including SBS Annual Reports; the National Library of Australia online catalogue, Trove; imdb.com; Ronin Films' online catalogue; the Screen Australia "Find a Film" database; the Australian Television Information Archive; and the personal records of former General Managers of SBSi, Andy Lloyd James and Bridget Ikin. While these other databases have become considerably more comprehensive, user friendly and numerous in the intervening years, this particular database offers a unique dataset regarding Australian film and television. Because the database was initially designed to identify patterns of production and representation, each of the entries are tagged to identify key themes pertaining to the minority cultures represented therein. As such, the SBSi Content Database facilitates the search for audio-visual texts related to these themes. This provides a telling snapshot of SBSi's contributions to multicultural representation in the 1990s and noughties, and enables researchers to identify individual and aggregate titles that address themes such as disability, domestic violence and colonial history, in this period. There are some gaps within this database. <br>This database has been designed to be interoperable with Dublin Core standards. However, the specific nature of the data collected in relation to SBSi has necessitated additional categories that are unlikely to correspond with other databases, and there are some anomalies worth noting. First, this database records the financial years within which all listed titles were commissioned by SBSi under the field "Date Commissioned". For content that only displays data within the fields "Date Commissioned" and "Title", it is unknown whether or not the program was completed. Not all fields are complete for each title due to the uneven availability of data. Second, the "Format" field has been used to designate whether the moving image was a documentary, documentary series, feature film, short film, short feature, interstitial, animation, animated short, animated series, animated feature, animated pilot, comedy series, drama series, reality TV, factual entertainment, hosted documentary or a television event. These are the formats (or genres) within which SBSi commissioned content. Third, each of the titles have been tagged with thematic categories (e.g. Disability, Indigenous, Family, Refugee, Gender, Sport, Multicultural, etc), these categories also corresponds to the subject field. These tags indicate broad axes along which SBSi content can be categorised, facilitating the aggregation of data about the different themes with which SBSi content engaged. Finally, one of SBSi's key contributions was via its collaboration with other federal and state film financing bodies, to train a new generation of culturally diverse filmmakers. These inter-firm initiatives are designated by the fields "Accord" and "Strand". Some of the key initiatives that you might like to search for are: Million Dollar Movies, Indigenous Drama Initiative, Unfinished Business, Hybrid Life and Australia by Numbers.

本数据库所聚合的数据，最初源自一项覆盖范围更广的研究项目。该项目将澳大利亚特别广播公司独立频道（SBS Independent, SBSi）作为一家在澳大利亚影视制作领域产生深远影响的小型文化机构展开研究。在制作层面，SBSi通过委托制作本土电影、纪录片与电视剧集，为创作者提供亟需的发行平台，同时拓展澳大利亚本土内容的受众群体，以此扶持独立制作行业。SBSi的工作人员还与联邦及州级影视机构紧密合作，助力新一代具有文化多样性的影视创作者成长——例如通过参与由澳大利亚电影委员会（Australian Film Commission）管理的原住民戏剧倡议（Indigenous Drama Initiative）。此类项目具有开创性意义，因为它们通过承诺在黄金时段播出委托制作的内容，使多元面孔、声音与叙事在国家电视台中的呈现获得了合法性。正是通过SBSi，澳大利亚特别广播公司（SBS）大幅拓展了多元文化主义的既有范畴，将残疾、性取向、性别、宗教、种族、族裔、国籍等议题纳入其中。
2009年我启动此项研究时，有关SBSi产出内容的数据不仅分散，且相当有限。本数据库从多种资源聚合数据，包括SBS年度报告、澳大利亚国家图书馆在线馆藏目录（Trove）、IMDb（imdb.com）、罗宁影业（Ronin Films）在线馆藏目录、澳大利亚银幕局（Screen Australia）的“寻找影片”数据库、澳大利亚电视信息档案馆，以及SBSi前总经理安迪·劳埃德·詹姆斯（Andy Lloyd James）与布里吉特·伊金（Bridget Ikin）的个人档案。尽管在此期间其他数据库已变得更为全面、易用且数量更多，但本数据库仍提供了关于澳大利亚影视内容的独特数据集。
由于该数据库最初旨在识别制作与呈现模式，每条条目均被标记，以标识与其中所呈现的少数族裔文化相关的核心主题。因此，SBSi内容数据库（SBSi Content Database）可助力搜索与这些主题相关的视听文本。这为我们呈现了SBSi在20世纪90年代及21世纪头十年对多元文化表征所做贡献的生动快照，并使研究人员能够找出在此期间涉及残疾、家庭暴力与殖民历史等主题的单个及聚合类作品。本数据库存在部分数据缺失。<br>该数据库的设计遵循都柏林核心元数据标准（Dublin Core）。然而，针对SBSi所收集数据的特定属性，需要增设无法与其他数据库对应的额外类别，且存在一些值得注意的异常情况。其一，本数据库在“委托日期（Date Commissioned）”字段中，记录了所有上榜作品由SBSi委托制作的财政年度。对于仅在“委托日期”与“标题”字段中存在数据的内容，无法确认该节目是否已完成。由于数据获取的不均衡性，并非每条作品的所有字段均已填全。其二，“格式（Format）”字段用于标识该动态影像作品属于纪录片、纪录片系列、故事片、短片、短长片、插播短片、动画、动画短片、动画系列、动画长片、动画试播集、喜剧系列、剧集、真人秀、纪实娱乐、主持式纪录片或电视活动——这些均为SBSi委托制作内容所涵盖的格式（或类型）。其三，每件作品均被标记了主题类别（例如残疾、原住民、家庭、难民、性别、体育、多元文化等），这些类别同时对应主题字段。这些标记提供了可对SBSi内容进行分类的宽泛维度，便于聚合与SBSi内容所涉及的各类主题相关的数据。最后，SBSi的核心贡献之一在于，通过与其他联邦及州级影视资助机构合作，培训新一代具有文化多样性的影视创作者。这些跨机构倡议通过“协议（Accord）”与“系列（Strand）”字段进行标识。您可能希望搜索的关键倡议包括：百万美元电影（Million Dollar Movies）、原住民戏剧倡议（Indigenous Drama Initiative）、未竟之业（Unfinished Business）、混合生活（Hybrid Life）与《澳大利亚数字志》（Australia by Numbers）。